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V. H. BUSOI-IMANN.

BUSTLE.

- PatentedMar. 1,1887.

VICTOR H. BUSCHMANN, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALB TO AUGUSTUS H. BRINKMANN, OF SAME PLAGE.

BUSTLIE SPBC'IPICATION forming part o! Letters Patent N0. 358,800, dated Manch l, 1887.

Application filed J'nly 9, 1886. Serie] N0. 207,569. (N0 1n0del.)

T0 all wh0m z't may concern:

Be in known that I VICTOR H. BUSOHMANN, e cibizen of the U-nited Stabes, residing ab Balbimore City, Statue 0f Maryland, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Bustles, of whieh the following is a specification.

I have improved the style of bust1ein which the contour is formed by a series of spring- Wire bows arranged in overlying relation 110 each other, each one below the other increasing in length and extending Eo a eennection with the waistband. y My improvement consists in combining With spring-bows, arranged as stated, tw0 er more transverse springstays composed 0f a series of arches arranged one above the other within the contour of bows and connecbed with the latter and wit-h the waistband. These series 0f spring-arehes I pxefer to make 0f a Single wire strand, one end of which connects with the series 0f bows and the other end wibh the waistband and the arches are formed between these end arts, oneabove the einher, and ab tached to and supported upon said end parbs in such 1nanner that bhe bows and arches may yield in every direction and retain the fonn of contonr f0l sustaining the skirts.

In the drawings, Figure l.represents my improved bastle in perspecbive; Fig. 2, evertical erosssection; and Figs. 3 and 4 show t;he series 0f spring-arehes fonned 0f a single- Strandwire tape.

The bows a, which form t-he contour of the busble, are connecbed t0 ehe waisbband b by pockets c, to which Lheir ends are secured by eyelets 0r otherwise. These bows .are of tapewire, and increase in 1ength from the t0p to the bottom, so as to give e convex contour extending suffieienbly-down and oub from the weist. T0 support; the bows and maintain the proper contour, l provide tw0 0r more spring-arched frames plaeed transverse between the ends of the bows, each composed of two or more arehes, d, standing wrbically and inereasing in spann fron1 the t0p to the bottom. These several arches stand out from the waistband and extend therefrom als different heights from the upper 110 the lower 100W, 110 whieh t11ey are connected, while at their inner ends they connect with the waistband by hangers.

I prefer to form each arch-frame of a single pieee of tape-wire, as shown, in which the upper arch extends from the top bow down t0 the lowest b0w and forms the smallest top 211'011 und the widest span while intermediate areh 01 arohes reformed by continuons bends. One end of bhis arehed frame is eonnected ab e 130 the waistband b, and extends down und forms a back hanger,f, and the lowest 2m311, whieh is secured by elasps g to Ehe lower bow. The upper arch is p10j eeted fr01n Ehe lower one, and is connected with and supported by the back hanger, along which it extends t0 the botton1 arch and terminat-es in an inberior areh snpported npon the back hanger and upon the outer arch, t0 which ib 1's fastened by the clasp g, thus forming a multiple 0f arehes fr0xn a single Strand of spring-wire, having 0ne end fastened t0 the waistband and the other end fastened 130 the outside a1eh ab the 1ower bow. Where bhe srands join euch 0ther in forming ehe arches they are secured together by c1amps. These frarnes 01 arches are connected Logether by a stay, h, ab the lower ends of the hangers; and the bustlefran1e so constructed can yie1d in any direction upon Ehe hangers upon whieh the springarches exert their force outward and upward, while permitting the latterto bend down With the bows, to bend inward wit.h lahe bows, and to bend sidewise with Ehe bnws.

The arches of ohe spring-frame are b0und together,witah one end, f of bhe wire projecbing up from the hanger, f0r attachnnent t0 Ehe waisbband, as in Figs. 3 and 4:.

I claim The bustle herein duscribed provided with supporling springsand springbows seid supporting-springs comprising a series 0f upwardly-arched spans, an upper one, a lower one, and an intermediate one, bonnd togebher and to the bows, as shown, and f0rnning a hanger for attaehmenb 130 the bastle-weistband.

In testirnony whereof I have hereunto set my band in the presence of tw0 subseri bing witnesses.

VICTOR H. BUSCHMANN. Witnesses:

G. E. FLOTOW, JNO. T. MADJDOX 

